File photo: Mohamed Ibrahim El-Duweiri, Deputy Director of the Egyptian Center for Strategic Studies (ECSS).
“This is the right of the Palestinian people who trust Egypt, its people and its leadership and we will never let them down,” he pointed out.
"Any talk about displacing the residents of Gaza or the West Bank to other countries or similar statements about the impossibility of implementing the two-state solution is all imaginary and unfair,” he told the Egyptian news agency MENA.
Eldawiry made his comment following remarks by US President Donald Trump suggesting the relocation of the Palestinians from Gaza into neighboring countries including Egypt and Jordan.
The Palestinian people will never give up their land, regardless of the nature of the projects that aim to uproot them from their land.
“The heroic residents of the Gaza Strip did not leave their land despite the war that targeted people and property, setting the most wonderful examples of how to be an integral part of the homeland,” he was quoted as saying.
The proposals for Palestinians’ displacement can only lead to more tension and instability in the region, and may even encourage Israel to further implement its extremist policies towards the Palestinians, whether in the Gaza Strip or the West Bank, where Israel is paving the way to impose sovereignty.
Eldawiry called on the international community to seek a just solution to the Palestinian cause and to exert even a small effort in this area, as has been the case with both Egypt and Qatar in securing a truce agreement after 15 months of the Israeli war.
“The entire world, which has been an observer of the genocidal war on Gaza, must take serious action, even once, and abandon the policy of double standards and exert some pressure on Israel to first implement the truce agreement to allow for the resumption of the peace process,” he stressed.
Egypt, he noted, is ready to do everything necessary to start a political process that brings together all concerned parties in a negotiating path that must take place soon in order to achieve stability in the region.
"The question I am asking here, following the humanitarian catastrophe that the world witnessed in Gaza, is: when will the international community move to restore the usurped rights of the Palestinian people and establish their state in the area that they accepted, which is 22 percent of the land of historical Palestine, and what is it waiting for?"
The international community – rather than talking about the displacement of the Palestinian population – must deal more justly and logically with the just Palestinian cause to facilitate the establishment of their independent state.
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